berley from are fairly remote and seldom
visited by beach-goers.
There are a number of ways you can berley
from a beach, but because of the water
movement experienced along a surf beach,
the last thing you want to do is to throw
a bucket of valuable berley into
the surf and watch it get
sucked out to sea. You want
to be able to hold the berley in
the shallows where you’re
fishing, so if a fish picks up the
trail, they’ll follow it back to the source.
We usually fill a mesh sack or oyster basket
with berley, and fix it between two star
droppers. I’ve been using Hexcyl Oyster
baskets recently; these things are almost
indestructible in the shore-break.
On low tide we drive two star droppers deep
into the sand, and run a length of PP rope
through the basket and out to each dropper.
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